Learning to Program With Haiku Now Available in Book Format

Blog post by darkwyrm on Thu, 2010-07-22 17:21
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The book is finally done! Getting through the proof copy took *so* much longer than I ever expected. Luckily, right now I'm out of town with a lot more time on my hands, so I had a lot more time to be able to sit down and get through it. It has been published through Lulu.com so that a great deal more of the profit from the book goes to me instead of the pockets of a book retailer. Here is the link to the book and e-book.

Learning to Program with Haiku at Lulu.com

The regular price is $25 USD, but as part of the launch of the book, it is on sale for 15% off the regular price through August 15 when you use the coupon code BEACHREAD305 at Lulu. It will also be available through online book retailers like Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, and others, but it will be a couple of months before it appears on those sites.

If you've been a fan of the lessons and want to show appreciation or to have a copy of it on your desk while you work your way through, now you have a chance to have a high quality copy, and if you've been sitting on the fence about it, read a lesson or two and then decide for yourself. Enjoy!

Comments

Re: Learning to Program With Haiku Now Available in Book Format

by Zenja - 2010-07-23 11:17

Hi Jon Yoder (aka Darkwyrm aka Warren Piece). I think that you have the distinguished honour of being the first person to actually publish a printed book for Haiku. I've got 3 printed BeOS books on my bookshelf (well, basement), and it really makes me happy to see the first Haiku book hit the shelves.

Well done.

Re: Learning to Program With Haiku Now Available in Book Format

by Stu - 2010-07-23 13:01

Awesome! I am looking forward to your new series thats more haiku oriented and less novice programmer oriented. Congrats on the book and I hope it does well for you.. Just have to figure out how to get it without my wife giving me an inquisition ;)

Re: Learning to Program With Haiku Now Available in Book Format

by humdinger - 2010-07-23 18:59

Great stuff, DarkWyrm!
After a bit of looking and searching on the Lulu site (not working too well with Web+ or BeZilla), I finally found some more or less official shipping prices to Germany (I hope...): $11 for 1,4 pounds and another $10 for every additional pound. Since I also read a comment from April 2009, saying he never received his package, I just got the PDF to download...

Nice leaf on the cover... Drew that yourself, DarkWyrm? :)

One thing I have really hoped for in the PDF and are sadly missing are bookmarks or at least clickable links to the pages on the contents page. Thankfully, we have BePDF and it's ability for user defined bookmarks. I intent to set these and share the bepdf:bookmarks attribute. Maybe a little script to copyattr it onto the PDF could be hosted on your site?

Congrats to your first book! And thanks for the acknowledgement. :)

Regards,
Humdinger

Re: Learning to Program With Haiku Now Available in Book Format

by Conrad Lukawski - 2010-07-23 19:33

It looks wonderful, and congratulations for being the first to publish a Haiku book :)

Re: Learning to Program With Haiku Now Available in Book Format

by pistooli - 2010-07-24 13:21

congratulations! nice to see a Haiku specific programming book.

Re: Learning to Program With Haiku Now Available in Book Format

by Satana - 2010-07-26 14:38

I would like to try make translation to Russian language. Could you provide me source text? I saw your single articles, but it's better to look at complete book.

satana3k@gmail.com
http://haikuforum.ru

Re: Learning to Program With Haiku Now Available in Book Format

by Suk Choi - 2010-07-27 16:34

Congratulations!! I love your Haiku programming lessons.

Re: Learning to Program With Haiku Now Available in Book Format

by vasper - 2010-07-30 13:54

Congratulations.

I just bought it. You are going to follow it up with a "Professional Programming With Haiku"... ;-)

Also... if you need a... Greek translation...

Re: Learning to Program With Haiku Now Available in Book Format

by soreil - 2010-08-09 20:12

Just ordered this book. I always like books more for learning things like programming languages because I hate reading on my LCD. I think this will help me adapt to Haiku and it will also be usefull to some of my friends that I will most likely force to read it.